Would you help me win a contest?
Dear Friends and Family,
Hope you're well. I wanted to ask for your help in a winner-take-all poetry contest. Don Kingfisher Campbell, a SoCal poet and poetry promoter, posted my poem "Declaration of Independence" on his poetry contest blog at http://winnertakeallpoetry.blogspot.com/
If you have the time, would you visit his blog? Please scroll down to my poem: entrant #2, Monday, May 23. And if you like it, would you leave a positive comment there? Whoever gets the most positive comments wins, and I could really use the cash and the ego boost right now. If you have difficulty leaving a comment, you may have to register with Google.
Thank you!
Warmly,
Jan
Hope you're well. I wanted to ask for your help in a winner-take-all poetry contest. Don Kingfisher Campbell, a SoCal poet and poetry promoter, posted my poem "Declaration of Independence" on his poetry contest blog at http://winnertakeallpoetry.blogspot.com/
If you have the time, would you visit his blog? Please scroll down to my poem: entrant #2, Monday, May 23. And if you like it, would you leave a positive comment there? Whoever gets the most positive comments wins, and I could really use the cash and the ego boost right now. If you have difficulty leaving a comment, you may have to register with Google.
Thank you!
Warmly,
Jan
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Sounds like a promising season, Jan. You must be excited. Very best wishes from me, I hope it all goes well.
Thanks, Hazel! Actually, my season is starting out a little slow. I've been sick for a couple of weeks with high fevers-- current thinking is that it's pyelonephritis, so I'm on Ciprofloxacin. I'll believe it when I see the culture results. :) Not sure if I'll make it to my reading on Friday, but since I'm "The Horizontal Poet" (the name of my new full-length poetry manuscript), maybe I can do it lying down on my portable massage table. Still getting kind of dizzy standing up. Hope you're well!
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I'm doing a couple of readings this summer with my biggest poetry mentors. On July 10 I'll be reading in some celebratory way with Linda Zeiser and Carolyn Stull, two women who love each other and love poetry with unquenchable passion. They also love poets, and I'm grateful for all their support and encouragement. I'll have more to say about that in future posts.
On September 18 (in California that's still summer weather, believe you me) I'll be reading with my dear friend, poetry mentor and editor Julia Vinograd, who with Zeitgeist Press published my first poetry chapbook. She helped choose and edit the poems for my forthcoming first full-length poetry collection, The Horizontal Poet, which Bruce Isaacson of Zeitgeist Press will publish within the year. Details to follow.
On Friday, June 10, I'll read with my good friend and fellow poet & writer Marc Hofstadter. Marc's father was a philosopher and university science professor; his uncle was a physicist who won a Nobel Prize; and his cousin was the author of Goedel, Escher, Bach. Marc will read from Healing the Split, his new book of essays about duality in our culture, and from his new book of lucid, humorous poetry. I'll read from my new forthcoming book of poetry and from my not-yet-published full-length short story collection, Ghosts and Oceans. Laurel Book Store, 4100 MacArthur Blvd. (at 39th Ave.), 7 PM. Hope you can come!
Best of luck to all of you in your reading and in your own work!
Warmly,
Jan
Hope you can come to one or to all!